An actor and comedian known for his hyperactive and improvisational style, Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois on 21 July 1952.

Williams played Tarvu in an ill-fated movie from 1981, You're The Best - a sickly-sweet modern-day retelling of the Tarvu story wherein Tarvu returns with a mission: to kiss every man, woman and child on Earth (Erbu). The film's major downfall, however, was to have every spoken line overdubbed with Morse Code, a short-lived fad from the late seventies which audiences had long since tired of by its release in 1981. Only one copy of the movie survives today, in the private collection of ex-Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev.